Improvement in fegsinowtacks



' DVMEAD Xi E. W. WATSON.

' PEGGI'NG JAOK.

No. 105,353. Patented July 12, 1870.

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, Letters Patent N .105,353,dateil July 12, sm.

IMPROVEMENT: IN PEGG-ING-JACKS.

The Schedule referred to mthese'rettera Patent and making paxt of the same the accompanying drawing.

Our invention relates to machines for making shoes; and

It consists in providing rubber cushion .or cup, for fitting on the toe-piece or rest that supports the toe of the shoe'while being pegged, as hereinafter more fully explained.-

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a toe-piece, with our Figure 2 is rear elevationofthe same; and Figure 3 is a bottom view of the cap or cushion dctached.

In the drawing- A represents the ordinary toe-piece used in machines for making shoes. t This toe-piece is usually made of cast-iron, and its ofiice is to support the we or front part of p the shoe,

while being pegged or nailed. As the iron is liable to injure the leather or cloth ramp of the shoe, when the latter is being hammered, it has been customary to cover or wrap the toe-piece with strips of soft leather, felt, cloth, orsimilar substance.

It-is difficultto make, by these means, asmooth or even bearingsilrface fort-the vamp to rest upon, besides these strips are constantly workingdoose, thus causing delay.

To obviate these difliculties, we construct a cush-- ion, B, prefe1-'ably of vulcanized rubber, of a form or shape to adapt it to the convex surface of the toe-piece A, as represented in the drawing.

This cushion must be made of sufiicient thickness to protect the vamp from injury by the toe-piece, but not so thick as to interfere with the necessary solidity to enable the pegs to be driven successfully.-

' In order to hold the cushion securelyiu place upon the end of the toe-piece, it isgprovided with an inwardly inclining flange or rim, 0, which, being elastic,

can be expanded sufliciently to cnable'it to bedrawn over the edges of the enlarged end of the toe-piece and, when thus applied, the contraction of the flange will hold the cushion 'B firmly in place.

It is obvious that the'cushion may be secured to the toe-piece by other means, but as the flange can be molded with the cushion, and all made at one operation, this afl'ords a simpleaud cheap means of accomplishing the object.

These cushions are to be made of various sizes to fit the diii'crent'sized toe-pieces, and in this way they can be produced and sold by the trade, as an article of manufacture, ready to 'be appliedand used where- The cushion B, composed of rubber, or similar elastic material, and made of a. form to adapt it to fit snugly upon the toe-piece oi'a pegging-jack, substantially as described,

i DAVID MEAD.

EZRA W. WATSON.

Witnesses:

THOMAS HIBBARD. Esau HU 

